Writing Quotes - Page 447

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way

It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.